Jane Williams bags her first 10 Championship points in an incident packed AGA Ladies Open point-to-point race at Garthorpe

Garthorpe is a home game for us as it is only just over an hour away, this ensured that we had a full car, made up of family members, plus a dog! However, the search for an AGA Pointing dog goes on as this one was only borrowed for the day, although she (Pixie) managed to star in quite a few of our photographs, and she also thoroughly enjoyed her first visit to a point-to-point meeting, which started with a walk around the course.

When you walk the course with a photographer you know that there will be some decent photo opportunities, and Beazo didn't let us down! He has previous form with 'fence shots', having taken a few pics of Claire Hart at Chaddesley Corbett last season, which have never seen the light of day - sorry Claire, I've mentioned 'those pics' so I will have to publish at least one of them!

We took the first three fences at a reasonable pace, which steadied as we took a pull out in the country, where Sam Davies-Thomas and Johnny Bailey threw down their challenge - with Mrs S looking as if she would be pulled up at this stage. We made ground on the top bend and free wheeled down the hill, then Sam and Johnny kicked on up the home straight and we finished tailed off!

In the photo above Marcus and Pixie hold a narrow lead and AGA man has just pulled his stick through to his right hand as he goes for a gap between Wayne (far side) and Karen, with Mrs S showing signs that she needed the run!

Baltic weather for AGA as our point-to-point series visits the south-east, but Charing turn up the heat!

Did you notice my new word in the title? It's 'baltic', and it follows swiftly on the heels of the words 'raw' and 'bleak' which I used after our visit to Overton two weeks ago. No matter, we still had a tremendous day and our first visit to the south-east area was a resounding success!

We were greeted by a smattering of snow as we drove onto the course, and then we spotted the familiar white hair of Beazo in the distance ... who once again helped Derek to put the signs up while I took the photos. Definitely something wrong there!

"AGA - A warm welcome home" proclaimed the sign by the open ditch, it would be a few hours before we would be warm, although the welcome on course was very warm - something we have come to expect.